ABSTRACT
Santo Domingo is one of the oldest neighborhoods, which originated the city of Tuxtla Gutiérrez, capital of Chiapas, Mexico. It was settled in 1560 under the Spanish law for colonization in the New World. The urban grid and its dynamics remained intact until the 1940s when interests to appear as a modern city began. This along with the replacement of historical buildings by new edifications, the displacement of residential uses, and the increase of tertiary uses, broke the dynamism of the neighborhoods and the loss of identity of its inhabitants. In order to return to the roots which gave rise to Tuxtla, and in the absence of a protection model that values and recognizes its existing earthen vernacular architectural heritage, the methodology to establish a specific cataloguing system for the analysis and assessment of this heritage is proposed for one of the most devastated neighborhoods of the historical center.
